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Best of Austin 2005
Things Giftish: Local Food Treats, Personalities on DVD,
CD Box Sets: Girl Groups and More, Books of Many Sizes,
the News Staff's Wish List, and a Guide to Charitable Giving

Capital Area Food Bank Needs You

Download the December 9 print edition in PDF format

Explore gift ideas on our Advertiser's Holiday Gift Guide page!






Life and Work, Light and Dark

How an artist's fabled legacy met its match in 'some dumb New York girl' who wanted to make a documentary


The Bloodthirsty Killers of Circle C

Victims take flight! ... Officials shrug! ... Stealthy predators stalk the suburban streets!

The Battle of the Bonds – Take Your Turn

With two public input meetings left, it's a good time to review the ups and downs, the winners and losers in the city's bond package so far

Silicon Labs to Move Downtown, Out of Watershed

Company's decision to move was partly due to concerns about expanding in environmentally sensitive terrain

School Finance: Where We Are and How We Got Here

The Supreme Court's ruling leaves a lot of blanks for the Lege to fill in

2005 Politics Holiday Gift Guide
We've heard some of these ideas are even real

Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

Point Austin: The Schroeder File

For APD and Austin, Knee's decision was the right one

The Hightower Report

You don't have to be a gabillionaire to maximize your philanthropic impact; and White House's favorite government contractor mistreating foreign workers in Iraq.


'Puerto Rico Mi Patria'

Saving the Island for Themselves

Heydays (Again)

Everybody Paint Now!

Ubu Ubu Ubu

Who's Your Dada?

Arts Reviews
Pale Idiot
King Kong
Andy St. Martin: Outside the Grooves


Curling Up
Gift guide


Giveable City
The treat of Austin eats

Food-o-File

The Capital Area Food Bank could use a hand; plus, ring in the season with events all over town

Liquid Assets
Texas wines with a little something extra


Life and Work, Light and Dark

How an artist's fabled legacy met its match in 'some dumb New York girl' who wanted to make a documentary

Texas Documentary Tour

'Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea'

Asking for It

'Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic'

Extra Special
Gift guide

TV Eye

Chaos Scenario

DVD Watch

Criterion's 'Shoot the Piano Player' and 'Jules and Jim'


I'd Much Rather Be With the Girls

'Girl Group Sounds' in a hat box

Box Sets
Gift guide

TCB

Praying for Daniel Johnston, marveling at Townes Van Zandt, and wondering 'what hath Snoop Dogg wrought'?

Phases & Stages
The Rolling Stones
Ian McLagan & the Bump Band

MF Doom


Holiday Wish Lists 2005

Give 'til it helps: part one

Page Two

'Be Here to Love Me' captures the poetry and loss of the late great Townes Van Zandt

Postmarks Online
Letters to the editor, updated daily.

Click here to view the letters from this week's print edition.

Letters at 3AM

On the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's death, Micahel Ventura revisits the column he wrote at the time of Lennon's murder when the pain was fresh

After a Fashion

Was your Style Avatar caught throwing down with Wilford Brimley(?!) in the grocery store parking lot? Or is it a case of mistaken identity?!

To Your Health

Do I need a calcium supplement?

Day Trips

Hot Damn, Tamales! in Fort Worth offers the tastiest gourmet tamales around, made with love by the Stavron family

The Common Law

What is deferred adjudication?

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Students swearing at teachers, penguins coining credos - what's next?

Ask Mr. Smarty Pants
Got a question? He's got the answer.

Soccer Watch

Soccer Watch Online

News and scores from the U.S. and abroad

About AIDS

Keep the ho-ho days merry!

The Luv Doc Recommends

A rambling recommendation to shore up that hole in your social calendar



WHAT TO DO


Recommended events today

NOW SHOWING
BY THEATRE BY FILM

NEW REVIEWS
Aeon Flux
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt AC Pick
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Ellie Parker
Juarez: Stages of Fear
King Kong
Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
Syriana AC Pick

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

OFFSCREEN LISTINGS

NEWS & FEATURES

Life and Work, Light and Dark

How an artist's fabled legacy met its match in 'some dumb New York girl' who wanted to make a documentary

Texas Documentary Tour

'Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea'

Asking for It

'Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic'

DVD Watch


WHO'S PLAYING




RECOMMENDED
Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra Holiday Special, One World Theatre
Astra Heights, Rock Kills Kid, She Wants Revenge, the Lovemakers, Stubb's Bar-B-Q
Bang Bang!, Mommy & Daddy, Room 710

UPCOMING ROADSHOWS

NEWS & FEATURES

I'd Much Rather Be With the Girls

'Girl Group Sounds' in a hat box

Box Sets
Gift guide

TCB

REVIEWS
Phases & Stages
The Rolling Stones
Ian McLagan & the Bump Band
, MF Doom,




RECOMMENDED
Oswald Gallery

NEWS & FEATURES

'Puerto Rico Mi Patria'

Saving the Island for Themselves

Heydays (Again)

Everybody Paint Now!

Ubu Ubu Ubu

Who's Your Dada?







WHERE TO EAT




NEWS & FEATURES

Giveable City
The treat of Austin eats

Food-o-File



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